During a keynote presentation at Google’s IO developer conference last year, Google VP of engineering Vic Gundotra proclaimed that the search giant created Android in order to bring freedom to the masses and avoid a “draconian future” in which one company controlled the mobile industry. Looking past the self-congratulatory rhetoric, Android’s poor track record on openness is becoming harder to ignore. The company revealed Thursday that it will delay publication of the Android 3.0 source code for the foreseeable future—possibly for months. It’s not clear…

> **Motorola Mobility, which has been Google’s only major licensee fully committed to Android, is now working on a new web-based mobile operating system apparently intended to give it more control over its future, enraging Android advocates anew just weeks after Nokia opted against adopting Google’s mobile OS.** > > Word of Motorola’s new project was [reported](http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/mobility/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229400097) by *Information Week*, which attributed “a source familiar with the matter.” > > While the company issued an email statement insisting that “Motorola Mobility…

> More than 50 applications containing malware have been discovered in Google’s application market for its Android mobile OS, a sign that hackers are hard at work trying to compromise mobile devices. via [macworld.com](http://www.macworld.com/article/158304/2011/03/android_malware.html#lsrc.rss_main)I hate to say it, but this is the tip of the iceberg. And while I continue to believe that malware is possible on any platform, even Apple’s very tightly controlled iOS, the fact of the matter is that Google…

> Hot on the heels of Apple’s subscription service announcement, Google has lifted the curtain on its own offering that will allow publishers to set a price for recurring content delivered via your Google login. The payment system is called “[One Pass](http://www.google.com/landing/onepass/),” and it allows publishers to offer not only subscriptions, but also metered access, “freemium” content, and even individual articles. So far, One Pass seems more flexible than [Apple’s offering](http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/apples-in-app-subscriptions-if-we-bring-in-subscribers-we-deserve-a-cut.ars), and the company…

> **RIM plans to add support for running existing Android 2.x apps on its upcoming PlayBook tablet to narrow its “app gap,” but also fears retribution from Oracle were it to use Android’s Dalvik Virtual Machine to do so.** via [appleinsider.com](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/10/rim_playbook_to_run_android_apps_but_fears_oracle_lawsuit.html)Letting Android apps run on PlayBook won’t help RIM close the “app gap.” It will only give developers even LESS of a reason to write native RIM…